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field
English
Etymology
From Middle English field, feeld, feld, from Old English feld (“field; open or cultivated land, plain; battlefield”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz, *felþaz, *felþ? (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“field, plain”) or *pleth?- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fi?ld/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fild/
- Rhymes: -i?ld
Noun
field (plural fields)
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
- (baseball) The outfield.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a board game or in a computer game.
- A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- Any of certain structures serving cognition.
- The extent of a given perception.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
- The extent of a given perception.
- A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
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- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
Synonyms
- (course of study or domain of knowledge): area, domain, sphere, realm
- (area reserved for playing a game): course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitch (for soccer, rugby, cricket)
- (location for the input of information): input field, box
Hypernyms
- (algebra): Euclidean domain ? principal ideal domain ? unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain ? integral domain ? commutative ring; simple ring
Hyponyms
- (algebra): ordered field, Pythagorean field, residue field, extension field
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (f?rudo)
Translations
Usage notes
In the mathematical sense, some languages, such as French, use a term that literally means "body". This denotes a division ring or skew field, not necessarily commutative. If it is clear from context that the quaternions and similar division rings are irrelevant, or that all division rings being considered are finite and therefore fields, this difference is ignored.
Verb
field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
- The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
- (transitive) To defeat.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
- to field a new land-mine detector
Synonyms
- (intercept or catch (a ball) and play it):
- (place a team in (a game)):
- (answer, address): address, answer, deal with, respond to
Antonyms
- (be the team throwing and catching the ball): bat
Translations
See also
- Field in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “field”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- Fidel, felid, filed, flied
Middle English
Noun
field
- Alternative form of feeld
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gridiron
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /????da??n/
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain, perhaps related to griddle. The ending was assimilated to iron, as if from grid +? iron, whence grid was later derived.
Noun
gridiron (plural gridirons)
- An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire. [from 13th c.]
- An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals. [from 14th c.]
Related terms
- iron
- grid
Derived terms
- gridiron football
- gridiron pendulum
- gridiron valve
Translations
Etymology 2
From resembling the shape of a gridiron (a square rectilinear grid)
Noun
gridiron (countable and uncountable, plural gridirons)
- Any object resembling the rack or grate. [from 15th c.]
- (nautical) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
- (theater) A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.
- (American football) The field on which American football is played. [from 19th c.]
- (uncountable, Australia and New Zealand) American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
- 1995 October 3, Peter O?Shea, Sports: Out on the field, The Advocate, page 54,
- He represented Australia in this year?s rugby tour of England and is as well-known in Australia as any top gridiron player is in the United States.
- 2001, Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Jackie Robinson: First Negro in Big League Baseball: 1919—, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 12: Works for Children and Young Adults, page 106,
- So Jackie?s name became known far and wide as an exceptional gridiron player.
- 2009, Deborah Healey, Sport and the Law, reference note, UNSW Press, page 271,
- 119 Yasser (1985) cites the famous US example of gridiron player Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears.
- 1995 October 3, Peter O?Shea, Sports: Out on the field, The Advocate, page 54,
Synonyms
- (playing field for American football): football field
- (football, Canadian and American): North American football, gridiron football, football (North American English)
- (American football): football (US English)
Translations
Verb
gridiron (third-person singular simple present gridirons, present participle gridironing, simple past and past participle gridironed)
- To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.
- 1901, Archibald John Little, Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Conclusion, p. 242, [1]
- This basin of Szechuan (literally "Four Streams," but which, reading the character idiographically, I should be inclined to render as "Gridironed by Streams"), […]
- 1923, Maximilian P.E. Groszmann, A Parent's Manual: Child Problems, Mental and Moral, New York: Century, p. 74, [2]
- Another logical method is that of gridironing the field by a series of straight paths that are parallel to each other.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 8, [3]
- When Billy saw the culprit's naked back under the scourge gridironed with red welts, and worse […] Billy was horrified.
- 1949, Lewis Sinclair, The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, Chapter 42, p. 227,
- His white back, gridironed with scars, was as soft as a baby's.
- 2012, Janet Wallach, The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, New York: Anchor Books, 2013, Chapter 8, p. 111, [4]
- Railways spanned the continent and gridironed the states.
- 1901, Archibald John Little, Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Conclusion, p. 242, [1]
- (New Zealand, historical) To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.
See also
- gridiron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gridiron on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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